Living for the Weekend

“You might see me on the Eastside, the Westside, I'm even going cross the bridge cause, and I hear they really get down over there. Monday to Thursday, I'm dead on my feet most of the time, too tired to eat; when I try to read the paper, I fall fast asleep. But, as soon as Friday rolls around me lay all my weekly, burdens down I put on my glad rags and paint the town “Living for the weekend.” O’ Jays

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell 1984

Kwame wrote Beneatha’s Place in response to playwright Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park creating the Raisin Cycle dystopian. “…It’s electric…,” with Kwame’s personality that exuberances energy and excitement, Center Stage is reestablished as a premiere theater.

"If your baby's ‘beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time’…you're the grandma!" Theresa Bloomingdale

The Grandparents Club has two new members– Napoleon and Brenda Sykes and Dr. David and Bebe Ashford. Welcome to the world Bodhi Cole Sykes, son of Napoleon & Christy in Raleigh, N.C., and Miles Gregory Ashford, son of Jai and Kerri, Long Beach, Calif.

“I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognize a good party man when I see one” Mae West

“Raindrops keep falling on my head” as 200 guests partied with the “original party animal” Victor Green at his 70th birthday party. The event planned by Betty Greene, Pat Crisp, Ann Taylor and Prodgelee Green-Pearson honoring a friend who can turn the worst party into a cause célèbre was fantastic.

“If you would comfort me, sing me a lullaby; If you would win my heart, sing me a love song; If you would mourn me and bring me to God, sing me a requiem, sing me to Heaven…” Jane Griner

Condolences to Rev. Bruce and Deborah Haskins on the death of their son Joseph Haskins, Myron Bundy on the death of his uncle Sherman Dunaways, Marguerite Walker on the death of her brother Jessie Scales and to Dr. Herschelle Morris on the death of William Bill Morris.

“Joy comes in the morning.” Mother’s Day was bittersweet for Dante Maurice Chestnut at his graduation from St. Mary’s College. His mom Eulanda Porter died suddenly last month. “We are family…” In attendance was his grandmother, Valerie Porter, and family from Maryland and California who were cheering when he received his degree in economics.

Caprece and Dennis Garrett are glowing after daughter Dara Jackson-Garrett graduated cum laude in international relations from American University. Dara, a Fulbright Scholar, will teach English in Venezuela this summer.

“Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams, your aspirations, what makes you happy, what you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.” Jessica Brody

The Holistic Health Seminar on memory loss is June 1 at the Randallstown Community Center call 800-586-4604 to register.